I can't locate 1 & 2, which I'll grant you were quite grey. But other than that, the recent versions have lost their splash pizzazz. The panache has passed to the past and plain is 'pparently preferred.

Yeah, you say that. My rose-tinted memory was exactly like that. I've been using Delphi 5 with an aged project for the last couple of months and I'm stunned at how often it dies, chews up all the CPU and generally misbehaves.I'm going back to 7 as the prime number of choice. 3 was awesome & evolutionarily revolutionary but lacked too many more recently added features to be the outright winner.